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tl;dr: automated/AI-driven accounting startup with ~$90M in funding, including a $42M round in 2021 [0], announces it will be shutting down

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/botkeeper-raises-42...


That makes much more sense tbh. I believe Musk predicted in 2021 that we would land humans on the moon by 2024 [0]. That obviously has been deprioritized but how many Starships have delivered 50+ tons of payload to the moon so far?

[0] https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/spacex-boss-elo...


How many times do you believe immigration agents showed up door to door with riot gear and rifles back then? When it was caught on camera during the Clinton administration it was one of the most polarizing images of his presidency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez


That one was controversial not because it was the deportation of an illegal alien rather there were custody issues (abduction accusations) as well as the complication of persecution in the home country —in other words there were multiple issues complicating the deportation. Was he a political prisoner, was he abducted to the US?

When the Miami Herald won 2 Pulitzers for its coverage of the incident, do you think it was because people were highly interested in the international custody issues? I’d argue that people were more piqued at why 100+ armed immigration agents needed to raid a family’s home

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-48

https://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/dramatic-photo-of...


In a free country, if people think the president is crummy, they are supposed to be able to say they want the president to resign or be removed. In the USA this is by design and has been provided for in advance intentionally since the beginning.

Without fear of retribution, this is the USA remember.

While protesting or not.

Whether for or against the President or not.

Retribution is really bad but fear alone is pretty bad too, it can be a complete terror as we have seen in some countries sometimes, where dictatorship rises it always leads to terrible shithole outcomes. Even when they don't employ storm troopers. But there's no other way to be more communist than having a dictator of any kind, no matter what they call it.

Thinking about pure terror, how do you think terrorists got their name?

Storm trooper tactics have always struck terror too, that's their job.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, the USA is supposed to be more free than anywhere else.

As we have seen, not every President or administration official can perform in that league.

From the very point that 4 protestors were killed, Nixon was actually toast.

He just wasn't burnt to a crisp until after he was re-elected.

What were people thinking? Nobody would admit to voting for him a second time after he was proven dishonest though.

Of course equally stupid things have happened which are getting plain to see for more people all the time.


The Dept of Homeland Security has had its own internal gen-AI chat bot since before Trump took office [0]. That this guy couldn’t make do with that, and didn’t think through the repercussions of uploading non-public documents to a public chatbot doesn’t bode well for his ability to manage CISA

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2024/12/17/dhss-responsible...


Isn't their internal chat bots provided by grok or Oracle AI?

dot is self hosting several openai and Claude models on chat.dot.gov it's awesome

You condition your take with “I’m not talking about deepfakes of real people”, but why do you think it is that Grok offers users the ability to generate pornographic imagery of entirely fake digital people — even tailoring them to be as visually flawless as one could desire — and yet so many users end up using it to generate deepfake porn of real people?

So with that in mind, why should we assume that the unrestricted proliferation of fake child porn would not produce significant harm downstream to society? Is the assumption that unlimited fake child porn would satiate the kind of people who now seek out real child porn?


Yes thank you! I find I get more than enough done (and more than enough code to review) by prompting the agent step by step. I want to see what kind of projects are getting done with multiple async autonomous agents. Was hoping to find youtube videos of someone setting up a project for multiple agents so I could see the cadence of the human stepping in and making directions


The story suggests a discrepancy between the asserted number of inspections and the required number of inspections

> The owner of the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Jacques Moretti, told Tribune de Genève that the bar had been inspected by local authorities three times in 10 years and that “everything was done according to the standards.” The Times has not yet been able to reach the owners. Local law in the region calls for yearly fire safety inspections in buildings open to the public or presenting special risks.



One of the few unqualified improvements that “X” (aka Twitter) made was rendering the usernames in a font that has wings for the lowercase L


I had always wondered if that happened because of a proliferation in folks named EionMusk.


A real “so you hate waffles?” moment for HN


With all the things going on in tech and in society, AI sycophancy is the number one problem? I once dealt with it through sufficient verbal abuse that the llm spent 2/3 of its response on any subject going forward apologizing for being a lying sycophant and bemoaning that it's new clarity would be gone at the end of the conversation, then I cleared the context buffer ending the conversation, mission accomplished.

Your priorities are f**ed...


Where are you getting this? Number one problem? You're the only person talking about "number one problem" in this thread. That's a whole new sentence.


from the batsh!+ over the top over reaction to the usual AI sycophancy in the response? The guy got the job done which is more than I can say for the space jam guy.

One thing I've learned is that the behavior of web services is usually a consequence of what makes its owners the most money. and while I would love a feed without spoilers, paywalled sites, sports news, and a bunch of other topics in which I have no interest, apparently force feeding me that crap is what makes the most money at scale. So people must like AI sycophancy or it would be unprofitable and it would be trained away. But then this is a country that thrived on 20 seasons of Keeping up with the Kardashians so I shouldn't be surprised that they like being treated like billionaires.

And I guess it throws being called a complete loser trader moron stupid treasonous Bozo in some late night executive word salad into stark relief.


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